The Alaska Democratic Party had its state convention May 14-15. It did not change its bylaws to say that independent candidates may file to run in Democratic primaries. Earlier the party had been so keen to make this change, it had filed a lawsuit against the state, to strike down the law that says only party members may run in Democratic primaries. But the state court ruled that the party didn’t have standing, since technically it still didn’t have any bylaws approving the idea.

It had been thought that the recent state convention might remedy that flaw in the lawsuit, so that the lawsuit could be re-filed. But instead, the convention took no action.